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Looking for a New Filipino Restaurant

Loved Salakot Sizzle & Grill in Historic Filipinotown, but they closed awhile back. Anything in LA that's similar in food quality and flavors? Specifically NOT looking for a takeout place with food sitting in steam tables all day like Nanay Gloria.

I recently had a great family dinner at fiesta si barrio in Eagle Rock. Really enjoyed their different fried rices (bagoong) as well as the usual suspects (Kare Kare, adobo, kaldereta, lechon manok, etc)

Pretty extensive menu, better than the other choices around.

Never been to the spot you mentioned so i don't have a point of comparison.

I've eaten at Nanay Gloria's Kitchen and the food plentiful, quite good and reasonably priced for what it is; primarily take-out with food sitting in steam tables. For about 5 bucks you get 2 entrees of your choice over a pile of rice. Their chicken/pork skewers are great if you're lucky enough to get one before they sell out.

Their sisig is not like in the phillipines. It had decent flavor but something about the texture was a bit off. They even mentioned on the menu it was their own version of the dish.

They had good kare kare, especially good with the bagoong rice. Garlic fried rice is always good as well. I'm not a fan of crispy pata but my relatives all enjoyed it. Most of their fried dishes were good (fried pusit/squid).

It has been a few months since I went there, but I had an excellent meal at LA Rose. Excellent Filipino food, including lechon on weekends, and a pleasant atmosphere. More expensive than steam table places, but so much better.

It was a group meal with the Culinary Historians, so many dishes - lumpia, beef mechado, chicken inasal, chicken adobo, ginataang na gulay, something else I can't remember with vegetables in coconut milk and ginger. I liked it all.

Ever since Mangga Grill shut down, there's been a sorry lack of really good, non-steam-table Filipino restaurants for a metro area with so many Filipinos. I had high hopes for Pondahan and Manila Bay, but the former is weirdly bland and the latter wildly inconsistent.

But if you like Filipino-gastropub fusion a la some of the Oinkster dishes, try Chapter One's adobo chicken wings, sisig fries, etc. Bonus points for the area's best chef's nickname (Jason "Chicken Wang" Montelibano)